Novel assay to assess permissiveness of a soil microbial community toward receipt of mobile genetic elements.

abstract：:Biological dinitrogen fixation in mangrove communities of the Tampa Bay region of South Florida was investigated using the acetylene reduction technique. Low rates of acetylene reduction (0.01 to 1.84 nmol of C(2)H(4)/g [wet weight] per h) were associated with plant-free sediments, while plant-associated sediments gav...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zuberer DA,Silver WS

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Penicillium expansum isolated from meat and apples produced both patulin and citrinin. Toxin identity was confirmed by spectroscopic and physical methods. The mean lethal dose in chicken embryos was determined for toxins administered both singly and in various ratios. Data from simultaneous administration of mycotoxin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ciegler A,Vesonder RF,Jackson LK

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of whole cells containing cytochrome P-450BM-3 monooxygenase [EC 1.14.14.1] for the bioconversion of long-chain saturated fatty acids to omega-1, omega-2, and omega-3 hydroxy fatty acids was investigated. We utilized pentadecanoic acid and studied its conversion to a mixture of 12-, 13-, and 14-hydroxy...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schneider S,Wubbolts MG,Sanglard D,Witholt B

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortierella isabellina ATCC 38063 is a zygomycete capable of hydroxylating fish-toxic resin acids which occur in certain pulp mill effluents to nontoxic metabolites. Addition of dehydroabietic acid (1) (80 mg/liter) to a freshly inoculated culture of M. isabellina in dextrose-yeast extract broth resulted in precursor ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kutney JP,Choi LS,Hewitt GM,Salisbury PJ,Singh M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyanobacterium Microcystis can produce microcystins, a family of toxins that are of major concern in water management. In several lakes, the average microcystin content per cell gradually declines from high levels at the onset of Microcystis blooms to low levels at the height of the bloom. Such seasonal dynamics m...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kardinaal WE,Tonk L,Janse I,Hol S,Slot P,Huisman J,Visser PM

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1,2-Dichloroethane (1,2-DCA) and 1,2-dibromoethane (ethylene dibromide [EDB]) contaminate groundwater at many hazardous waste sites. The objectives of this study were to measure yields, maximum specific growth rates (μ), and half-saturation coefficients (K(S)) in enrichment cultures that use 1,2-DCA and EDB as termina...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yu R,Peethambaram HS,Falta RW,Verce MF,Henderson JK,Bagwell CE,Brigmon RL,Freedman DL

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Butane-oxidizing Arthrobacter (ATCC 27778) bacteria were shown to degrade low concentrations of methyl t-butyl ether (MTBE; range, 100 to 800 microg/liter) with an apparent half-saturation concentration (K(s)) of 2.14 mg/liter and a maximum substrate utilization rate (k(c)) of 0.43 mg/mg of total suspended solids per ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liu CY,Speitel GE Jr,Georgiou G

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During microaerophilic growth of magnetic spirillum MS-1 on tartrate and nitrate, a maximal cell density was obtained at an initial oxygen partial pressure of 17 Pa. A transient accumulation of nitrous oxide and a 1:2 (mol/mol) stoichiometry between tartrate oxidation and nitrate reduction were observed, indicating th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Escalante-Semerena JC,Blakemore RP,Wolfe RS

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria have been recognized as an important sink for fixed nitrogen and are detected in many natural environments. However, their presence in terrestrial ecosystems has long been overlooked, and their contribution to the nitrogen cycling in natural and agricultural soils is cur...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hu BL,Rush D,van der Biezen E,Zheng P,van Mullekom M,Schouten S,Sinninghe Damsté JS,Smolders AJ,Jetten MS,Kartal B

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mycotoxin secalonic acid D was detected for the first time as a natural contaminant of corn dust obtained from grain storage elevators. Secalonic acid D amounts ranged from 0.3 to 4.5 ppm (0.3 to 4.5 micrograms/g), as determined by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ehrlich KC,Lee LS,Ciegler A,Palmgren MS

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five rumen bacteria, Selenomonas ruminantium, Bacteroides ruminicola, Megasphaera elsdenii, Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens, and Streptococcus bovis were grown in media containing nonlimiting concentrations of glucose, sucrose, maltose, cellobiose, xylose and/or lactate. Each bacterium was grown with every substrate that it...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Russell JB,Delfino FJ,Baldwin RL

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The colonization of granular activated carbon columns by bacteria can have both beneficial and potentially detrimental consequences. Bacterial growth on the carbon surface can remove adsorbed organics and thus partially regenerate the carbon bed. However, growth can also increase the levels of bacteria in the column e...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shimp RJ,Pfaender FK

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of chitosan microparticles on the uterine microbiome of cows with metritis. Dairy cows with metritis (n = 89) were assigned to 1 of 3 treatments: chitosan microparticles (n = 21), in which the cows received an intrauterine infusion of chitosan microparticles at me...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Galvão KN,de Oliveira EB,Cunha F,Daetz R,Jones K,Ma Z,Jeong KC,Bicalho RC,Higgins CH,Rodrigues MX,Gonzalez Moreno C,Jeon S

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty known penicillic acid (PA)-producing Aspergillus and Penicillium cultures were grown under various conditions in shaken flasks to determine the highest yielding strains and their requirements for maximum toxin production. Abilities of the cultures to utilize eight different carbon sources in Raulin-Thom medium ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lindenfelser LA,Ciegler A

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many pathogenic yeast species are asexual and therefore not involved in intra- or interspecies mating. However, high-frequency transfer of plasmid DNA was observed when pathogenic and food-borne yeasts were grown together. This property could play a crucial role in the spread of virulence and drug resistance factors a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mentel M,Spírek M,Jørck-Ramberg D,Piskur J

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Bradyrhizobium has been considered to be a taxonomically difficult group. In this study, phylogenetics and evolutionary genetics analyses were used to investigate divergence levels among Bradyrhizobium strains nodulating soybeans in China. Eleven genospecies were identified by sequence analysis of three phyl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhang XX,Guo HJ,Wang R,Sui XH,Zhang YM,Wang ET,Tian CF,Chen WX

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial growth in biofilms is the major cause of recalcitrant biofouling in industrial processes and of persistent infections in clinical settings. The use of bacteriophage treatment to lyse bacteria in biofilms has attracted growing interest. In particular, many natural or engineered phages produce depolymerases to...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pei R,Lamas-Samanamud GR

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) released by infected individuals or present in human and hospital wastes can potentially cause contamination problems. The presence of HIV-1 was investigated in 16 environmental samples, including raw wastewater, sludge, final effluent, soil, and pond water, collected fr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ansari SA,Farrah SR,Chaudhry GR

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chitin is an abundant biopolymer whose degradation is mediated primarily by bacterial chitinases. We developed a degenerate PCR primer set to amplify a approximately 900-bp fragment of family 18, group I chitinase genes and used it to retrieve these gene fragments from environmental samples. Clone libraries of presump...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： LeCleir GR,Buchan A,Hollibaugh JT

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The natural abundance of stable carbon isotopes measured in bacterial nucleic acids extracted from estuarine bacterial concentrates was used to trace sources of organic matter for bacteria in aquatic environments. The stable carbon isotope ratios of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and nucleic acids extracted from cultures rese...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Coffin RB,Velinsky DJ,Devereux R,Price WA,Cifuentes LA

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growing mycelia of Trichoderma reesei Rut-C30 are richly endowed with endoplasmic reticula and a variety of pleomorphic subcellular bodies. Mycelia of the culture growing in presence of avicel pH101 was fractionated in sucrose density gradients, and several morphologically and biochemically distinct fractions were...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Glenn M,Ghosh A,Ghosh BK

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Culture-independent (PCR with Crenarchaeota-specific primers and subsequent denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis) and culture-dependent approaches were used to study the diversity of Crenarchaeota in terrestrial hot springs of the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Lake Baikal region (Russia) and of Iceland. Among the phy...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Perevalova AA,Kolganova TV,Birkeland NK,Schleper C,Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA,Lebedinsky AV

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) ST398 isolated from pigs raised in conventional farms was previously reported. Here we report a study on 25 farms adhering to an alternative system. LA-MRSA ST398 was not detected in nasal swabs from 178 pigs or from 89 humans working and livin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cuny C,Friedrich AW,Witte W

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of drying time during freeze-drying on the outermost cell surface of an encapsulated strain of Staphylococcus aureus S-7 (Smith, diffuse) were investigated, with special attention paid to capsule and slime production. To quantify capsule and slime production, capsule antigen production and cellular charact...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ohtomo T,Yamada T,Yoshida K

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solid media on a base of B-12 or CB medium with agarose or agarose of low melting temperature were developed for the cultivation of Microcystis species. The media with 0.4% gel showed the highest number of CFU, and increasing the gel concentration resulted in a reduction of the number of CFU. There was no difference i...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shirai M,Matumaru K,Ohotake A,Takamura Y,Aida T,Nakano M

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorhexidine (CHX) is a broad-spectrum antiseptic widely used in community and clinical contexts for many years that has recently acquired higher relevance in nosocomial infection control worldwide. Despite this, CHX tolerance among Enterococcus faecium bacteria, representing one of the leading agents causing nosocom...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Duarte B,Pereira AP,Freitas AR,Coque TM,Hammerum AM,Hasman H,Antunes P,Peixe L,Novais C

更新日期：2019-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A predictive and feedback proportional control algorithm, developed for fed-batch fermentations and described in a companion paper (G. L. Kleman, J. J. Chalmers, G. W. Luli, and W. R. Strohl, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 57:910-917, 1991), was used in this work to control a continuous culture on the basis of the soluble-...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kleman GL,Chalmers JJ,Luli GW,Strohl WR

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a chemically defined medium without L-alanine, Lactobacillus johnsonii was demonstrated to be strictly auxotrophic for that amino acid. A comparative genetic analysis showed that all known genes involved in L-alanine biosynthesis are absent from the genome of L. johnsonii. This auxotrophy was complemented by het...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： van der Kaaij H,Desiere F,Mollet B,Germond JE

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterization by partial 16S rRNA gene sequencing, ribotyping, and green fluorescent protein-based nisin bioassay revealed that 6 of 20 human milk samples contained nisin-producing Lactococcus lactis bacteria. This suggests that the history of humans consuming nisin is older than the tradition of consuming fermente...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Beasley SS,Saris PE

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pseudomonas genus contains a metabolically versatile group of organisms that are known to occupy numerous ecological niches, including the rhizosphere and endosphere of many plants. Their diversity influences the phylogenetic diversity and heterogeneity of these communities. On the basis of average amino acid iden...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jun SR,Wassenaar TM,Nookaew I,Hauser L,Wanchai V,Land M,Timm CM,Lu TY,Schadt CW,Doktycz MJ,Pelletier DA,Ussery DW

更新日期：2015-10-30 00:00:00